Critically Assessing Undergraduate Field Experiences: Understanding Conceptualizations and Opportunities for Building Inclusive Programs
Critically Assessing Undergraduate Field Experiences: Understanding Conceptualizations and Opportunities for Building Inclusive Programs
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批判性评估本科生实地经验：了解构建包容性项目的概念和机会
DOI：
10.1093/icb/icad008
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发表时间：
2023
影响因子：
2.6
通讯作者：
Reano, Darryl
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作者：
Morales, Nia;Reano, Darryl
本科生实地经验 (UFE) 是许多生物学、生态学和地球科学项目的关键组成部分，也是成功就业的重要步骤。通过对不同现场项目负责人的半结构化访谈，我们试图了解现场项目负责人如何概念化他们的科学学科以及他们在 UFE 内部实施的有意设计因素。此外，本研究探讨了这些项目领导者在设计包容性 UFE 时所使用的关键考虑因素，以及设计和实施 UFE 时面临的制度和实际挑战。我们承认小样本受访者的局限性，我们写这篇文章的目的是探索这些回应，作为与更广泛的地球科学界分享设计和实施包容性 UFE 的关键设计因素的一种方式。尽早了解这些因素将有助于新的现场项目领导者解决目前造成生物学、生态学和地球科学边缘背景学生代表性不足的多重挑战。通过这些明确的对话，我们希望支持科学界的专业发展，科学界重视创造安全、令人鼓舞的实地经验，让学生能够增强他们在科学领域的自我认同，建立同行和专业网络，并发展令人难忘的实地经验，支持他们走向成功的职业生涯。
Undergraduate field experiences (UFEs) are key components of many biology, ecology, and geoscience programs and important steps to successful recruitment into careers. Through semistructured interviews of diverse field program leaders, we seek to understand how field program leaders conceptualize both their scientific disciplines and the intentional design factors they implemented within the UFE itself. Additionally, this study explores critical considerations these program leaders use to approach designing inclusive UFEs as well as the institutional and practical challenges of designing and implementing their UFEs. We acknowledge the limitations of the small sample of respondents, and our intent with this article is to explore these responses as a way to share critical design factors for designing and implementing inclusive UFEs with the broader geoscience community. Building an early understanding of these factors will help new field program leaders address multiple, simultaneous challenges that currently foment the underrepresentation of students from marginalized backgrounds in biology, ecology, and the geosciences. Through these explicit conversations, we hope to support the professional development of a scientific community that values the creation of safe, encouraging field experiences in which students can enhance their self-identity in the sciences, build peer and professional networks, and develop memorable field experiences that support their trajectories toward successful careers.